By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 8 May 2025 Photo: Åsa Hansdotter Researchers at Lund University have developed a new method to determine how the composition of proteins in blood changes in response to disease or organ damage. This could provide a deeper understanding of how diseases affect the body and be used to discover new biomarkers in the blood

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/protein-changes-reveal-diseases - 2025-07-01

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 14 May 2025 The researchers could see an increase in the number of pregnancies and a relative number of 38% more babies born among women who received hormone therapy that matched their gene variation compared with those who did not. Photo: iStock Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have conducted a clinical study to show

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/higher-success-rate-using-simple-oral-swab-test-ivf - 2025-07-01

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 15 May 2025 Marie Jönsson, grant manager Stem Cell Center and Mattias Magnusson, director of RAMP-UP at the Lund Research School in Stem Cell Biology and group leader at the Stem Cell Center. Photo: Alexis Bento Luis Lund University in Sweden has been awarded an EU grant of 8.3 million euros for a new international doc

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/83-million-euros-doctoral-programme-regenerative-medicine-and-atmp - 2025-07-01

By agata [dot] garpenlind [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Agata Garpenlind) - published 2 June 2025 There was no ribbon-cutting, but a symbolic demolition of a 3D-printed giant virus. Photo: Agata Garpenlind Lund University Virus Centre (LUVC) holds festive inauguration (May 27). There was no ribbon-cutting ceremony, but instead a symbolic demolition of a 3D-printed giant virus marked the official ope

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/lund-universitys-virus-centre-inaugurated-symbolic-demolition-giant-virus - 2025-07-01

By asa [dot] hansdotter [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Åsa Hansdotter) - published 5 June 2025 Bengt Zöller and his fellow researchers have now identified the strongest genetic risk factor since Factor V Leiden was discovered. Photo: Åsa Hansdotter Blood clots can form in both arteries and veins. However, the reasons behind them differ, as do the consequences and the chances of preventing blood clots

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-gene-variants-significantly-increase-risk-blood-clots - 2025-07-01

By tove [dot] smeds [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Tove Smeds) - published 16 June 2025 The study's results indicate a link between the food we eat and serious heart problems caused by atherosclerotic plaques, such as heart attacks. Photo: iStock A Swedish multi-centre study led by researchers at Lund University shows a link between low fibre consumption and the presence of unstable or high-risk plaq

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/link-identified-between-low-fibre-diet-and-more-dangerous-type-atherosclerotic-plaque-coronary2 - 2025-07-01

By noomi [dot] egan [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Noomi Egan) - published 19 June 2025 Professors Thoas Fioretos, Lao Saal, Carl Borrebaeck and Åke Borg are behind some of the most promising companies and approaches within diagnostics and treatment emerging from cancer research at Lund University. Photo: Tove Smeds, Olle Dahlbäck. Professors Carl Borrebaeck, Thoas Fioretos, Lao Saal and Åke Borg sha

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/how-turn-research-ideas-real-world-impact - 2025-07-01

By katrin [dot] stahl [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Katrin Ståhl) - published 26 June 2025 Charlotte Ling, who together with Katarina Fagher and Alice Maguolo, has been awarded a grant of five million Danish kroner by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. Photo: Kennet Ruona Congratulations to Charlotte Ling who, together with Katarina Fagher and Alice Maguolo, has been awarded a grant of five million Danish

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/charlotte-ling-receives-major-grant-clinical-diabetes-research - 2025-07-01

By martina [dot] svensson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se (Martina Svensson) - published 27 June 2025 he researchers stained brain sections to identify how different Parkinson’s treatments activate distinct brain circuits. Photo: Emma Nyberg. An experimental study from Lund University reveals for the first time that different Parkinson’s medications affect brain activity in distinct ways. This could ex

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/brain-activation-pattern-behind-impulsivity-parkinsons-treatment-discovered - 2025-07-01

Published 29 May 2019 The most common form of childhood cancer is acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). Researchers at Lund University in Sweden, in cooperation with Karolinska Institutet, SciLifeLab and the University of Cambridge, have now carried out the most extensive analysis to date of ALL at the protein level, by studying the activity in over 8 000 genes and proteins. The results show aberra

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/first-major-study-proteins-patients-acute-lymphoblastic-leukaemia - 2025-07-01

Published 29 May 2019 Feng Zhang and Malin Parmar (Photo: Ingemar Hultquist) Feng Zhang, professor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard visited Lund University at the beginning of March to deliver the annual honorary lecture organised by the Royal Physiographic and Mendelian Societies in Lund. First published: 2019-05-26Listen to the interview and hear more about why Feng Zhang wants to intro

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/honorary-lecturer-feng-zhang-crispr-research-treasure-hunt-nature - 2025-07-01

Published 29 May 2019 First published: 2019-05-03Indian women are younger and leaner than Swedish women when they develop gestational diabetes, a new study from Lund University shows. The researchers also found a gene that increases the risk of gestational diabetes in Swedish women, but which, on the contrary, turned out to have a protective effect in Indian women.Gestational diabetes is character

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/gestational-diabetes-india-and-sweden - 2025-07-01

Published 29 May 2019 Henrik Jörntell and Jonas Enander After a series of studies, researchers at Lund University in Sweden, together with colleagues in Italy, have shown that not only one part, but most parts of the brain can be involved in processing the signals that arise from touch. The results open the way for a new approach to how the brain’s network of neurons processes information, and the

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/new-view-mechanisms-how-brain-works - 2025-07-01

Published 29 May 2019 The number of cases of disease caused by Leishmania, a parasite that is spread via bites by sand flies which are mainly found in tropical and subtropical areas and in countries around the Mediterranean, has increased in Sweden. The most serious form of the disease usually leads to death if untreated. First published: 2019-05-06“This disease is still very rare in Sweden but th

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/study-shows-increase-parasite-disease-sweden - 2025-07-01

Published 29 May 2019 The most common form of childhood cancer is acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). Together with Karolinska Institutet, SciLifeLab and the University of Cambridge, researchers at Lund University have conducted the largest ever analysis of ALL at protein level by studying activity in more than 8,000 genes and proteins. The results of the study show a deviant folding of the DNA s

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/first-large-scale-study-proteins-patients-all - 2025-07-01

Published 29 May 2019 Being able to take care of one’s hygiene, cook food and cope independently in the home are examples of feeling in control of one’s life. But how easy is it for an elderly person with a spinal cord injury to feel actively in control of their life in the home? Lizette Norin, occupational therapist and researcher, has written a thesis on the importance of accessibility in the ho

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/accessibility-home-key-person-spinal-cord-injury - 2025-07-01

Published 29 May 2019 Applications for the nomination of academic innovation projects and medium-cost equipment to the Mats Paulsson Foundation for Research, Innovation and Community Development First published: 2019-05-06In the text below, the Mats Paulsson Foundation for Research, Innovation and Community Development describes the purpose of the announcement and how applications are to be struct

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/nominate-projects-mats-paulsson-foundation - 2025-07-01

Published 29 May 2019 Tomas Deierborg and Antonio Boza-Serrano In recent years, it has become increasingly clear to researchers that the protein galectin-3 is involved in inflammatory diseases in the brain. A study led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden now shows the de facto key role played by the protein in Alzheimer’s disease. When the researchers shut off the gene that produces this p

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/researchers-block-protein-plays-key-role-alzheimers-disease - 2025-07-01

Published 29 May 2019 A European consortium, led from Lund University, is to receive SEK 50 million from the EU for research which is to develop our understanding of the functional mechanisms of the brain. The research project, called INTUITIVE, is one of the Innovative Training Networks within the framework of Horizon 2020. The aim of the project is to develop user interfaces based on touch that

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/additional-sek-50-million-research-brains-mechanisms - 2025-07-01

Published 28 June 2019 Researcher Louise Brunkwall at Lund University explains how three risk factors are involved in obesity. Louise Brunkwall recently defended her PhD thesis Obesity; with a focus on diet quality and gut microbiota. In this clip, she discusses how the three known risk factors for obesity interplay to determine your risk:  

https://www.medicine.lu.se/article/watch-three-risk-factors-behind-obesity - 2025-07-01